Congregation of Jesus and Mary (C.I.M./C.J.M.)

Eudists

Also known as: Congrégation de Jésus et Marie (Eudistes) (français) / Congregazione di Gesù e Maria (Eudisti) (Italiano) / Congregatio Iesu et Mariæ (Eudistarum) (latine)

Type: Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right (for Men)

Depends on: Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life

Statistics: 68 houses, 492 members (361 priests) (2020)

Address: Via dei Querceti 15, 00184 Roma, Italy

Phone: 06.772.66.01

Website:

History

1643.03.25: Established as Congregation of Jesus and Mary (Eudists) (English) / Congrégation de Jésus et Marie (Eudistes) (français) / Congregazione di Gesù e Maria (Eudisti) (Italiano) / Congregatio Iesu et Mariæ (Eudistarum) (latine) / C.I.M. / C.J.M.

Churches

4 churches

Superiors

Superior General:	Fr. Jean-Michel Amouriaux, C.I.M. (56) (2017.01.07 – ...)
Superior General:	Fr. Camilo Bernal Hadad, C.I.M. (2012.01.02 – 2017.01.07)
Superior General:	Fr. Jean Camus, C.I.M. (2011 – 2012.01.02)
Superior General:	Fr. Michel Gérard, C.I.M. (2001 – 2011.03.11)
Superior General:	Fr. Pierre Drouin, C.I.M. (1989 – 2001)
Superior General:	Fr. Rénald Hébert, C.I.M. (1983 – 1989)
Superior General:	Fr. Clément Joseph Marie Raymond Guillon, C.I.M. (later Bishop) (1971 – 1983)
Superior General:	Fr. Fernand Lacroix, C.I.M. (later Bishop) (1966.08.19 – 1970.08.19)
Superior General:	Fr. Armand-François Le Bourgeois, C.I.M. (later Bishop) (1953 – 1966.03.22)
Superior General:	Fr. François Lebesconte, C.I.M. (1937 – 1953)
Superior General:	Fr. Charles Le Petit, C.I.M. (1935 – 1936)
Superior General:	Fr. Mathurin Jéhanno, C.I.M. (1930 – 1935)
Superior General:	Fr. Albert Lucas, C.I.M. (1919 – 1930)
Superior General:	Fr. Ange Le Doré, C.I.M. (1870 – 1919)
Superior General:	Fr. Louis Alexis Marie Gaudaire, C.I.M. (1849 – 1870)
Superior General:	Fr. Jérôme-Julien Louïs de la Morinière, C.I.M. (1830 – 1849)
Superior General:	Fr. Charles-Toussaint Blanchard, C.I.M. (1826.01.09 – 1830)
Coadjutor Superior General:	Blessed Fr. François-Louis Hébert, C.I.M. (1782 – 1792.09.02)
Superior General:	Fr. François Pierre Dumont, C.I.M. (1777 – 1796)
Superior General:	Fr. Pierre Le Cocq, C.I.M. (1775 – 1777)
Superior General:	Fr. Michel Lefèvre, C.I.M. (1770 – 1775)
Superior General:	Fr. Jean Prosper Auvray de Saint-André, C.I.M. (1751 – 1770)
Superior General:	Fr. Pierre Cousin, C.I.M. (1727 – 1751)
Superior General:	Fr. Guy de Fontaines de Neuilly, C.I.M. (1711 – 1727)
Superior General:	Fr. Jacques Blouet de Camilly, C.I.M. (1680 – 1711)
Superior General:	Saint Fr. Jean Eudes (John Eudes), C.I.M. (1643.03.25 – 1680.08.19)
Founder:	Saint Fr. Jean Eudes (John Eudes), C.I.M. (1643.03.25)

Living Bishops (1 Cardinal, 5 Bishops)

Cardinal Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal, C.I.M. (80), Cardinal-Priest of S. Dorotea and Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Cartagena (Colombia)

Bishop José Mario Bacci Trespalacios, C.I.M. (51), Bishop of Santa Marta (Colombia) and Apostolic Administrator of El Banco (Colombia)

Bishop Luc Crepy, C.I.M. (64), Bishop of Versailles (France)

Bishop Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M. (80), Bishop emeritus of Évry–Corbeil-Essonnes (France)

Bishop Luis Alfonso Márquez Molina, C.I.M. (86), Titular Bishop of Turris rotunda and Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Mérida (Venezuela)

Bishop François Thibodeau, C.I.M. (83), Bishop emeritus of Edmundston (Canada)

Saints (1 saint, 4 blesseds)

1680: Saint John Eudes (Jean Eudes), priest

1794: Blessed Charles-Antoine-Nicolas Ancel, priest and martyr

1792: Blessed François-Louis Hébert, priest and martyr

1792: Blessed François Lefranc, priest and martyr

1792: Blessed Pierre-Claude Pottier, priest and martyr

Deceased Bishops (7 Archbishops, 15 Bishops)

2022: Bishop Pedro Nicolás Bermúdez Villamizar, C.I.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas (Venezuela)

2021: Archbishop Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Cali (Colombia)

2021: Archbishop Helímenas de Jesús Rojo Paredes, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Calabozo (Venezuela)

2014: Bishop Claude Henri Édouard Frikart, C.I.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (France)

2012: Archbishop Eladio Acosta Arteaga, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (Colombia)

2012: Bishop René-Marie Ehuzu, C.I.M., Bishop of Porto Novo (Benin)

2010: Bishop Clément Joseph Marie Raymond Guillon, C.I.M., Bishop of Quimper (France)

2005: Bishop Armand-François Le Bourgeois, C.I.M., Bishop of Autun (France)

2003: Archbishop Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Mérida (Venezuela)

1994: Bishop Fernand Lacroix, C.I.M., Bishop of Edmundston (Canada)

1992: Archbishop Germán Villa Gaviria, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Barranquilla (Colombia)

1988: Archbishop Patrick James Skinner, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint John’s, Newfoundland (Canada)

1976: Bishop Jorge Alberto Giraldo Restrepo, C.I.M., Bishop of Pasto (Colombia)

1973: Bishop Napoléon-Alexandre Labrie, C.I.M., Bishop of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada)

1959: Bishop Luis Pérez Hernández, C.I.M., Bishop of Cúcuta (Colombia)

1958: Archbishop Joaquín Garcia Benitez, C.I.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Medellín (Colombia)

1953: Bishop Patrick Albert Bray, C.I.M., Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick (Canada)

1946: Bishop Julien-Marie Leventoux, C.I.M., Vicar Apostolic of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada)

1942: Bishop Patrice-Alexandre Chiasson, C.I.M., Bishop of Bathurst (Canada)

1942: Bishop Natale de Cleene, C.I.M., Vicar Apostolic of Léopoldville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1916: Bishop Gustave-Maria Blanche, C.I.M., Vicar Apostolic of Golfe Saint-Laurent (Canada)

1878: Bishop René-Marie-Charles Poirier, C.I.M., Bishop of Roseau (Dominica)

Other Former Prelates (2)

>2015: Fr. Jean-Benoît Gnambode, C.I.M., Apostolic Administrator of Porto Novo (Benin)

2013: Fr. Michel Cancouët, C.I.M.

Last updated on 2023.03.17